South & South East Asian furniture, woodwork & ivories reading list
Abdul Aziz, Thrones, Tents and Their Furniture Used by the Indian Moghuls, Mirza Mohammad Sadiq: Lahore, n.d.
Arts of India, eds. John Guy and Deborah Swallow, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990
Bence-Jones, Marc, Palaces of the Raj, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1973
Birdwood, George C.M., Arts of India, Calcutta: Rupa and Co., 1988
Brohier, R.L., Furniture of the Dutch Period in Ceylon, 2nd ed., Columbo: National Museums of Ceylon, 1978
Codrington, K. de B., 'Western Influences in India and Ceylon: A Group of Sinhalese Ivories', Burlington Magazine, LIX, 1931
Codrington, K. de B., 'Mughal Marquetry', Burlington Magazine, February, 1931
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., The Arts and Crafts of India and Ceylon, T.N. Foulis, London and Edinburgh, 1913
Digby, S., 'The Mother-of-pearl Overlaid Furniture of Gujarat: The Holdings of the Victoria & Albert Museum', in Facets of Indian Art ed. R. Skelton et al., London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1986
Dutt, G.C., A Monograph of Ivory Carving in Bengal, Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1901
Edwards, Norman, The Singapore House and Residential Life 1819-1939, Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1990
Edwards, R., & K. de B. Codrington, 'The Indian period of European furniture - a reply', Burlington Magazine', LXV, 1934
Edwards R., & K. de B. Codrington, 'The Indian Period of European furniture', Apollo, XXI & XXII, 1935
Falk, Toby, 'Inlaid and ebony furniture from British India' Orientations, 1986
Head, Raymond, The Indian Style, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986
The Indian Heritage, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, exh. cat., 1982
'Inlaid Ebony Furniture of the Late Seventeenth Century', Country Life, January 22, 1927
Jaffer, A, Luxury Goods from India: the art of the Indian cabinet-maker, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2002
Jaffer, A, Furniture from British India and Ceylon: a catalogue of the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2001
Jaffer, A, 'Furniture made in Asia for export the West', Encounters: the meeting of Europe and Asia, eds. Anna Jackson and Amin Jaffer, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2004
Jaffer, A., 'Towards an Understanding of Colonial Furniture', The Meeting of East and West in the Furniture Trade, Proceedings: Sixth International Symposium on Wood and Furniture Conservation (Amsterdam: Stichting Ebenist 13-14 December 2002), 2003, pp. 5-9
Jaffer, A., Anglo-Indian Furniture in the Gerstenfeld Collection', Masterpieces of 18th century English Furniture, London: Christie's Publications, 1998, pp. 128-147
Jaffer, A., 'Ivory-inlaid and veneered furniture of Vizagapatam, India, 1700-1825', The Magazine Antiques, February 2001, pp. 342-249
Jaffer, A., 'Tipu Sultan, Warren Hastings and Queen Charlotte: the mythology and typology of Anglo-Indian ivory furniture', The Burlington Magazine, May 1999, CXLI, no. 1154, pp. 271-281
Jaffer, A. and M. Schwabe, 'A group of sixteenth century caskets from Ceylon', Apollo, March 1999, CXLIX, no. 445, pp. 3-14
Jaffer, A., 'On the Coast of Coromandel', Christie's International Magazine, July-August 1998, pp. 46-49
Jaffer, A. and D. Swallow, 'Curzon's Ivory Chairs at Kedleston', Apollo, CXLII, no. 434, April 1998, pp. 35-39
Jaffer, A., 'The Furniture Trade in Early Colonial India', Oriental Art, Spring 1995, pp. 10-19
Kipling, J.L., 'Indian Ivory Carving', The Journal of Indian Art, I, 1886, pp. 49-53
Murphy, Veronica, 'Indian Furniture of the 18th century', Discovering Antiques, 1972
Murphy, Veronica, 'Collecting Indo-European Furniture', The Antique Collector, October, 1973
Murphy, Veronica, 'Art and the East India trade: some little-known ivory furniture', Connoisseur, vol. 175, December, 1970
O'Dwyer, M.F, 'Wood Manufactures in the Punjab', The Journal of Indian Art, III, no. 30, 1890, pp. 33-39
Pal, Pratapaditya, Elephants and Ivories, exh, cat., Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981
Ricardi-Cubbitt, Monique, The Art of the Cabinet, London: Thames and Hudson, 1992
Slomann, V., 'The Indian period of European furniture', Burlington Magazine, LXV, 1934, LXVI, 1935
Symonds, R.W., 'Furniture from the Indies', Connoisseur, May-August, 1934
Veenendaal, Jan, Furniture from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India during the Dutch Period, Delft: Volkendkundig Museum Nusantara, 1985
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